So Zimmerman is charged with 2nd degree murder.

[Geor!]

At least unemployment is down to 7.0!

[War Machine]

Fuck al sharpton.

Yea

[DON SVO]

if he pays his bond in cash and appears in court he gets it back. They're hoping he jumps ship IMO.

[KBScobravert]

I think they finally got the hit worked out and the only missing is him being behind bars.

[Forever_frost]

Especially since the defense argued that he put his grandmother and parent's house up for collateral

[ceyko]

Not that it is critical or anything...just interesting...

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/12/3655268/zimmermans-wife-charged-with-perjury.html

SANFORD, FLA -- SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, was arrested Tuesday after being charged with one count of perjury for allegedly lying under oath at his bond hearing about whether she and her husband had access to any money.

She quickly posted $1,000 bond and was released.

At Zimmerman's April 20 bond hearing, Shellie Zimmerman, 25, was asked whether the couple had any money.

"Uhmm, not, not that I'm aware of," she responded.

But prosecutors say bank records show Shellie Zimmerman had stashed cash in a safe deposit box and transferred nearly $75,000 from her husband's bank account into hers. When her husband was granted bond and released from jail, the money was returned to George Zimmerman's account, according to a probable-cause affidavit prosecutors filed.

Shellie Zimmerman was charged with committing perjury during an official proceeding, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

"Prosecutors sent a strong message that you have to tell the truth in court, because it is the whole basis of the judicial system," said attorney Benjamin Crump, who spent weeks pushing for Zimmerman's arrest in the Feb. 26 killing of teenager Trayvon Martin. "The credibility of each witness is always at the crux of every legal case," added Crump, who represents Martin's parents.

George Zimmerman was not charged with perjury because he was never asked about money while under oath.

Zimmerman is facing a second-degree murder charge, which carries possible life sentence, in Martin's death. Shortly after Zimmerman's arrest in April, his lawyer requested a full bond hearing to determine whether he could be released pending trial.

Zimmerman's family testified under oath by phone.

At the hearing, defense attorney Mark O'Mara and prosecutor Bernardo de la Rionda asked Shellie Zimmerman whether the couple had any funds. Shellie Zimmerman said the defense attorney had explained to her that he planned to apply for state financial aid reserved for the indigent who cannot pay their court costs.

Asked by de la Rionda how much money had been raised by a website George Zimmerman set up while he was in hiding, Shellie Zimmerman said she did not know.

To pay the bond, she said, the family planned to "pull together members of the family to scrape up anything that we possibly can."

Days after Zimmerman's release on $150,000 bond, O'Mara revealed to the court that the website's PayPal account had amassed $204,000. O'Mara claimed that day that his client hadn't mentioned it at the bond hearing because Zimmerman did not know how much money was available to him at the time.

The defense lawyer has since acknowledged that his client lied because of "fear, mistrust and confusion."

At first the judge set the bond issue aside while prosecutors investigated the matter. At an unrelated court hearing held June 1, the prosecutor stunned the court by filing a motion to revoke Zimmerman's bond.

De la Rionda said jailhouse phone calls between Zimmerman and his wife - recorded before the April 20 bond hearing - showed she knew the PayPal account already had raised more than $100,000. According to the affidavit, the two engaged in a plot to hide the money.

From April 16 to 19, Shellie Zimmerman transferred $74,400 from George Zimmerman's account to her own in small chunks: She transferred just under $10,000 six times and $7,500 twice.

On the 16th, she twice withdrew $9,000 cash from her own account and later discussed with her husband taking what she "put in the box."

George Zimmerman felt safer if his wife used gift cards instead of cash and asked her to pay off their American Express and Sam's Club cards, according to prosecutors.

On April 16 and 17, another $47,000 was transferred from Zimmerman's account to his sister's bank account.

Prosecutors said Zimmerman and his wife were careful to speak in code.

"I'm, um, trying to think cause you're going to take out $10 and keep it with you in cash, right?" George Zimmerman said to his wife.

"Yeah, like $9," Shellie Zimmerman answered.

He asked whether she had "more than $10" cash.

"Not with me," she said.

"Do I have $100?"

"There's like $8. $8.60," she said.

"Total, how much are we looking at?" he asked her.

"Um, like $155."

George Zimmerman said he didn't want to spend it all in one shot by using it all on bond and said another person had advised to hoard as "much cash as possible."

On April 24, once Zimmerman was free, the couple transferred $85,000 back to his account.

When Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester learned of the scheme earlier this month, he revoked Zimmerman's bond. Another bond hearing is scheduled for June 29.

George Zimmerman "does not properly respect the law or the integrity of the judicial process," Lester wrote.

[Forever_frost]

I wouldn't either. They've already shown that they're willing to bend to public pressure and ignore evidence

[ceyko]

Yeah and their financials are all public now...etc. I'm having a problem figuring out why them having cash is a question to even be asked.

[SMKR]

Why is it any of their damn business?

[sc281]

Yeah and their financials are all public now...etc. I'm having a problem figuring out why them having cash is a question to even be asked.

This.

Guaran-fucking-teed that if they told the court they had $150k in donations for his defense fund that bail would have been set for 1.6mm, requiring him to come up with $160k.

[03trubluGT]

This.

Guaran-fucking-teed that if they told the court they had $150k in donations for his defense fund that bail would have been set for 1.6mm, requiring him to come up with $160k.

I'm sure if bail was set at that and the public found out, there would have been plenty of donations to cover it.

[matts5.0]

I'm sure if bail was set at that and the public found out, there would have been plenty of donations to cover it.

Was the money they came up with for the original bail not donations?

[stevo]

Was the money they came up with for the original bail not donations?

No, it was supposedly from family.

Stevo

[ThreeFingerPete]

If I were him, I'd be on a different continent right now. There is no chance in hell that he's going to get a fair trial, and every white apologist or black radical is going to make sure of that.

[Cannon]

When I'm in PG or Oak Cliff I feel sorry for blacks. It's not their fault guys, blacks don't have the opportunities we have, as other races. That's why blacks commit crimes and up welfare benefits by having kids, there really is no other way for them to get by. It's sad to think that such an intelligent group of people are segregated for the color of their skin... I'm SO ashamed of my race. LONG LIVE TRAVON! He was a good kid…